Second Committee (Economic and Financial) Holds Panel Discussion on Globalization

The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) held a panel discussion on globalization this morning. Paul Krugman, professor at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, told the Second Committee that the international community must discard the fevered sales pitch of the 1990s and adopt a more sensible, modest and humane approach if globalization were to succeed. He was one of four economists on the panel chaired by Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Chairman of the Second Committee.

Left to right at the podium: Sarbuland Khan, Director of Division for ECOSOC Support and Coordination of Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Paul Krugman, professor at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, Jagdish Bhagwati, Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics at Columbia University, Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Chairman of the Second Committee, Nikhil Seth, Secretary of the Second Committee, Jean Pierre Ouedraogo, Ligue des Consommateurs du Burkina Faso, and Manuel Orozco, Project Director of Central America for the Inter-American Dialogue.